smelted

Example Sentences

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Mike Piazza, the slugger expensively coached from boyhood in the modern manner, saw “the silver spoons of his youth smelted into the first of ten consecutive Silver Slugger awards.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

I watched as they took the nuggets and powder they had extracted and smelted it all down into a glistening gold bar.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2024

Once, I could swear the fire station’s brass pole was smelted down.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024

A large wooden bucket had been kept within, containing several damaged bronze objects and worn axe-heads, waiting to be smelted down and recycled into new tools.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

He had smelted Mrs. O’Leary’s favorite bronze chewing bone.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan